HIST 410N Full Week 3: Case Study Plus Discussions
HIST 410N Week 3 Case Study 3: The Democrat and the Dictator
HIST-410N Week 3 Discussion 1: Dictatorship and Democracy
Analyze Adolph Hitler’s rise to power and the policies he used to rule Germany. Textbook tyrant? Overheated
Nationalist? Or the right man for at the right time for the right job?
HIST 410N Week 3 Discussion 2: The Gathering Storm
The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939: “Though the Fuhrer’s anti-Semitic program furnished the National Socialist party in the first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-cry, it was swept into office by two things with which the “Jewish Problem” did not have the slightest connection. On the one side was economic distress and the revulsion against Versailles: on the other, chicanery and intrigue…Hitler and his party promised the unhappy Germans a new heaven and a new earth, coupled with the persecution of the Jews. Unfortunately a new heaven and earth cannot … manufactured to order. But a persecution of the Jews can…” How do you interpret this contemporary account of the persecution of people who are Jewish? Elaborate.
